Description
Product ID: | 9780099287797 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Bowen's Court & Seven Winters |
Authors: | Author: Elizabeth Bowen |
Page Count: | 560 |
Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Family history, tracing ancestors, Family history, tracing ancestors, Ireland |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen''s Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of the Protestant Irish gentry whose lives were dominated by property, lawsuits, formidable matriarchs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking, and self-destructive fantasies. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1999-05-27 |